I was just visiting San Francisco and stopped at a small store in Chinatown where I noticed a small bronze statue of a rat. Thinking it’d be a perfect gift for a friend who collected weird items I asked the owner, "How much" and he replied "$50 for the rat and $1000 for the story behind it".

I told him, "Forget the story"; but bought the rat and left.

As I was walking down the street I noticed a couple of live rats following me and as I continued to walk, more and more rats start following. By now I was starting to get a little concerned and started running until I found myself at the end of a pier on the waterfront. By this time there are thousands and thousands of rats on the pier with me and I was so exhausted from running I dropped the rat and it bounced off the pier into the ocean. I stood and watched in amazement as all the rats followed; leaping off of the pier and drowning.

I rushed back to the store and when I walked in the owner saw me and said, "Aha, I knew you’d come back for the story".

"Nope" I replied, "I didn’t come for the story but do want to know if you have any bronze Trolls for sell?"